The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-07

wan, Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men. Lest we
start TOO TAR of and get lost In generalties
we mad better begin with ourselves, get
our own hearts and life in harmony with
eternal Christ. Oh, for his almighty spirit
TO attunc us, TO accord our will with his
WIN, TO modulate our life with his life, and
Dring us into unison with all that
Is pure, and self-sacrfcing and heavenly,
Inc strings OF our nature are all broken
ana twisted, and the bow is 10 slack that il
cannot evoke anything mclihuous. The
instrument made for heaven Ia play on has
been roughly twanged and struck by in
huences worldly and demoniac. o, mas
ter hand OF Christ, restore this split, and
fractured, and dcspoiled and unstrung
nature until first IL shal wall out for our
SIN and then trill with divine pardon.
! The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. A few days ago !
was in the Fairbanks weighing scale
mandatory, OF Vermont Six hundred
hands, and they never had n strike. Com
plcte harmony between labor and capital,
the operatives of scores of years in their
beautiful homes near by the mansions OF the
manufacturers, whose invention and
christian behavior made the great enter
PRISE. SO all the world over labor and
capital will be brought into cuphony.
| You may have heard what is called the
| Anvil Chorus composed by Verdi, tune
played by hammers, great and small now
with mighty stroke, and now with heavy
stroke, beating q great iron anvil. That Is
what the world has got 20 come to-anvil
chorus, yard.stck chorus, shuttle chorus,
trowel chorns, crowbar chorus, pick-axe
chorus, gold mine chorus, rail track
chorus, locomotive chorus. lt can be
done, and 1t will be done. So all social
life will be attuned by the gospel harp.
There will be IA many classes in society as
now, but the glasses will not he regulated
by birth, or wealth, or accident, but by
the scale Of virtue and benevolence, and
| people will be assigned 10 their places rs
| good, or very good, or most excellent. So,
! also commercial life will be attuned, and
there will bctwclvc in every dozen, and
sixteen ounces in every pound, and apples
at the bottom Of the barrel will he rs sound
M those on top, and silk goods will not be
cotton, and sellers win not have 10 charge
honest people more than the right price
because others will not pay. and goods
| VIII come 10 you corresponding with the
samplo by which you purchased them,
and coffee will not be chickoricd, and
sugar will not be sanded, and milk will not
be chalked, and adultention Of food will
be States prison oilense. Aye, all things
shall be altuncd Elections in England
and the United States will no more be a
grand carnival OF defamation and sour
rility, but the elevation OF righteous men
In righteous way. : .
"ln the sixtccntlr century the singers
called the Fischer brcdhcs reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the highest
note ever TITLED WIS by Ia liastardella,
and Catalinis voice had compass OF
three and a half octaycs. But christianity
In more wonderful for IL runs all up and
down the greatest nights and the deepest
| depths Of the worlds necessity, and II
will compass everything and bring IL in
accord with the song which the morning
stars sang nj the laying Of the worlds
cornerstone. All the sacred music in
homes and concert halls AMI churches
tends toward this contamination. Make
Il more and nom hearty. Sing in your
families Sibg hypIU places Of business.
II We, with PROPER splrit, use these iacul-
ties We are rchcarsing for the skies.
Heaven is 10 have q new song-an en-
tirely new song but ! should not wonder
II, ma sometime on earth, q tune Is fash.
with the variations, 40 somc 81 the songs
81 the redeemed may have playing through
them the song, of earth, and how thrill.
lug, as coming shrough,iho great an;ho.l
| OF the saved, acCum panicd by harpcTs
with their huna, and trumpctcrs with
their trunpcts, We should hear some Of
the strains Of Antioch, and Mount Pisgnh,
and Coronation, and lcnox, aud st. Mar.
tins and Fountain, aud Ariel, and Old
Hundred. How they would bring 10 mind
the praying circles aud communion DAYS,
aud the Christmas festivities aud the
church worship, in which ON earth We
mingled. have NO idea that when We
bid farewell 10 earth We are to bid farewell
To all these grand old gospel hymns which
melted aud mpturcd our souls for ~ many
years. Now, my friends, II sin is discord
and righteousness Ia harmony, let Ms
ut out Of the ono aud enter tho
other. After our dreadful civil war
was over, aud in the summer Of
1860 great national peace Jubilee was
held In Bos,on, aud as an elder Of
this church hal been honorcd by the
selection ui some ul his music Ia be rem
dncrcd on that occasion. ! accompanied
him Ia the jubilee. Forty thousand poo.
pie sat aud siool in the great coliseum
erected for that purpose; thousands Of
wind and strinr,d instruments: twelve
thousand tunnod voices. The masterpieces
ol all ag,s wcp rendered, hour after hour.
and day after day.- Handles Judas Mac.
cabaous Sphurs last Judgment,
Bccthoycn's Mount Of Olives llaydns
Creation, Mcndrlss0hn's Elijah, Mayer.
beers CORONATION March, rolling
ON aud up In surgss that blllowcd against
the heavens. Tho mighty cadenccs within |
were accompanied ON the outside by the
ringing Of the bells u the city and cannon
ON the commons, ia exact time with tho
music discharged 10y electricity, thunder.
ing their awful bars u harmony that
asiounded nll nations. Sometimes bowed
my head and wcpi, Sometimes I stood mp
In the cnchantincnt, and sometimes the
effect WIS ~ Uyrfpowering | felt ! could
not endure H. When all the voices were
In full chorus, and all the batnns In fall
wave, and all the orchestra in full triumph,
and hundred anyils under mighty ham.
mcr wcrc In iull Clang and all the towcr,
of the rity rollcd IN their majestic sweet.
nCss, and the whole building quakcd with
the boom Of thirty cannon, Parcpa Rosa,
with voice that will never again ha
cqualcd on earth until the archangclic
voice pruClnins that time shall hc mo-
longer, rnsc above nll other sounds In her
rendering Of our national nir. The Star.
Spanglcd banner II wis too much iur a
mortal, aud quite enough Tor nm immortal. |
90 hear, and while some tainted. ono
womanly spirit. rrlclsrd undcr its power
sped away to be- with Cod.
30 Lord, our God, quickly usher In the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all
islands oi the sea join the five continents,
and all the voices aud musical instruments
oi all nations combine, and all the unFins